Selections from  Media and Professional Writing  -- English 202

    Students in the Media  and Professional Writing course at the University of Illinois at Chicago go out in the city and suburbs to find people, places and events that rarely get noticed but are part of the vital core of Chicagoland life.  The best of their stories will be featured on this website.

Spring 2010 2010Fall 2008

     CELEBRATION AGAINST HATE

                     By Kori Miner

UIC students and community members this spring turned a hate-filled demonstration against the UIC Levine Hillel center by the infamous Westboro Baptist Church into a celebration, creating an unusual sense of campus unity....MORE

  Fall 2009

       POP GROUP HANSON WALKS ON

                        By Lauren Lykke

  Barefoot on the chilly quad, the Hanson brothers told around 100 UIC students how the pop band and Tom’s Shoes came up with an idea to take shoeless walks to represent the sufferings of African children. Then they took a barefoot, mile-long walk themselves....MORE

Spring 2009 2009

       THE VINTAGE UNDERGROUND

                     By Rosie Gillam

   Betty Dinsdel’s frail, wrinkled hand grasped the blue fabric of the 1950’s style party dress. Betty appeared undeterred by the size of the dress, an extra large, as she pressed the aged cloth against her withered body....MORE

                                IT’S ABOUT THE PATIENT

                                      By Anothai Kaewkaen

   A bold red line runs along the floor at the entrance to the operating facilities at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. A plaque on the receptionist's desk declares in capital red letters: RESTRICTED AREA. PROPER ATTIRE ONLY....MORE